Bessie Amelia Emery Head (6 July 1937 – 17 April 1986) was a South African writer who, though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana's most...

A question of power is a novel by Bessie Head. The protagonist, Elizabeth, leaves South Africa to live in Botswana, and experiences power relationships...

Bessie Head Short Story Awards (Bessie Head Literature Awards from 2007 to 2013) is a Botswana literary award founded in 2007. It is administered by the...

novel by South African-Motswana author Bessie Head, published in 1968. Having left South Africa in 1964, Head wrote the novel while in exile in Botswana...

forensic scientist Bessie Head (1937–1986), South African writer Bessilyn Johnson (1871–1943), wife of Chicago millionaire Albert Johnson Bessie Love (1898–1986)...

Maru is a 1971 novel by Bessie Head, exploring racism and ethnic conflict, specifically that of the Tswana and San peoples. It centres on an orphaned...

interest in gender issues and her nation's poverty.[citation needed] Bessie Head is a writer well known in Southern Africa. In 1964 she fled the apartheid...

northeastern Ohio and Michigan folklore, Bessie is a name given to a lake monster in Lake Erie, also known as South Bay Bessie or simply The Lake Erie Monster...

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of...

12 October 2022. Everyday matters : selected letters of Dora Taylor, Bessie Head & Lilian Ngoyi. M. J. Daymond, Dora Taylor. Auckland Park, South Africa...